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VOLUME I.
SAUK CENTRE, MINNESOTA, THURSDAY, JULY 18, 1867.
NUM&EE
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JOB PRTNTING
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PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
Miner & Wren,
Attorneys and Counselors at Law, Notaries
Public and Conveyancers,
Special attention given to proceedings in
Bankruptcy in the United States Courts.
Sauk Centre, -. - Minnesota.
Ofllce over the Post Office. :
TIB- B. E. PALMEE,
PH YSICIAN^SJJR GEON.
■MS~ Residence near the Mill, Sauk Centre. "®R
ILLIAM J. PARSONS,
ATTORNEY AT LA^t
Saint Germaine street, over Burbank Bros.
St. Cloud, Minfrespta.
Crt AS. WALKER,'
Attorney at Law.
R. P. EDSON,
Attorney at Law and
Notary Public.
3E<lsoxi «&• ~WeLlkevi
REAL ESTATE AGENTS,
O.Uce over Philadelphia. Store on Third street,
Sauk Centre,- Stearns County, Minnesota.
. Business Property,HousesandLots,Farms,
farming LandEj, etc., etc., bought and sold on
'commission.
ATTENTION!
is called to the fact that bur facilities for making out Pre-emption .papers and for locating
and entering Government Land .With. Cash,
Scrip or Land Warrants, are unsurpassed tor
any office west 61 St. Cloud. A large assortment of Town J?lots for the use of seekers of
Claims on hand and kept constantly corrected by correspondence with the Land Office.
We have in our hands for saie. some, pf-the
finest Farms arid Farming Lands in this
upper country..
BUSINESS CARDS.
E
DWARD DREBLOW;
Cabinet Bl&kcr.
Main street, Sauk Centre, Minnesota.
Kqeps constantly on hand 'a complete stock
v/t-r of Furniture, Coffins, <&c.
"jfti orders will receive prompt attention* ;
"DILLIARD SALOON,
A.. DE GROAT,- Proprietor.
Third street, Sauk. Centre, Minnesota.
, Has first class Phelan A Collender Billard
Tables. ... '"\i
Choice Wine*, Liquors, Aie, Porter arid Ci-
garsj
»
AjkQON AND BAKERY,,-
O. M. EENNOE, Proprietor
Main Street, Sauk Centre, Minnesota. .
Bread, Cakes, Pies, <fcc, always on^iand, Hot
.. Cofifee and Meals at all hours. Good
,' Wines and Liquors and the best
brands of Cigars.
H.MINEft,-
Insuraiice Agent,
. Sauk Centre, -. - Minnesota.
"Represents the soundest and most reliable
Fire, Life and. Accid3n$-,Insnrariee Cb'm-{
panies of the Eastern and Western ;
States. Office over the Post Office.
J. WHETBWEiPp
House «& Sign Painter,
Graining, cftazihg^'aper 'Hanging, &c., done
with neatness and oh reasonable terms.
Work warranted equal in quality to that
agreed jj^oapr no jchargessjnade, Jjgr* Paint
Shop next door to Thomas A Co's; •
Sank Centre, Minn:,' June 5, KS67. ■■
RECOGNITION.
There comes a wanderer, staff in hand,
Homeward returning from distant land.
His beafrd is tangled, his face is brown;
Will they know him again in his'native
town ?
Enraptured Tie iieai's tlie city gate,
Where the toller of yore is standing In wait.
'Twas a youthful comrade, true and fast
Once many a Wine cup between them pessed.
Yet strange—tfieAoll-gatherer knew him not;
Do beard and sunshine his features blot ?
lie sjlakes.thedust from his trodden boot;
He turns in sileace^WIth brief saluted -
Behold—his true love stands at the door?
" Thou blooming fair one, we come once
more!"
But the maid unconscious, remains unmoved! ^Ml» ■ ,
She knows not the voice of her offce lovea.
He bends his steps towards Bis etfildhood's
home; "•'V - . . '
To his cheeks so brown the tear-drops come.
Near, the e6t his mother is wending her way;
" God bless thee, beloved," is all he can say.
The mother she turns and shouts for ]6y!
In her arms she is clasping her truant boy.
Though the sun nrsyTsmart and the beard
may grow,
The mother—the mother her son doth know.
A REMINISCENCE.
Once when I was a little boy,
I sat me downio cry.
Because my little brother had
The biggest piece of ifl&
'TWas not but I had quite enough".
But then I could not see
Tlie reason why a partial nurse
Should give him More than me.
They said I Was a naughty boy,
But I-have oft seen men
Behave themselves as foolishly
As I behaved then.
For w.e,are otton thankless for;
Rich blessings, when we sigh
To think some luckier neighbor has
A " bigger piece " of pie.
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JESSIE OF JLTJCKWOW.
An Incident of tiie Sepoy Rebellion.
OHN CHRISTGAU,
Boot Sc jSMoe Makfefrj
Main Street, Sauk Centre, Minn.,
A complete stock of Boots and Shoes kiept
constantly on hand, and made to order on
■'short notice. Good fits'warranted.
Repairing promptly done, at reasonable
prices. All kinds of Shoemaker's Tools for
sale.
R.
P. EDSON
Is Agent for sound* arid reliable
FIRE, LIFE, ACCIDENTAL LIFE AND
,', LryE STOCK INSTJRANE COMPANIES. "'
He insures Live Stock against Death and
Theft, in the Hartford Live Stock. Insurance
Company—the soundest and only reliable
Live Stock Company orr this continent i
LAND OFFICE »&*EEAL ESTATE
AGENCY.
P>T. ja.-Mjiner,
Lands sold on commission. Farms composed of Prairie, Meadow and Timber Laridr
for sale.
Persons desiring to enter Land, with Cash
Scrip or Land Warrants, or to file Pre- '
Eruption claims, can do so at my office
and avoid tibe time and expense of
„„ a trip to St.-Cloud,
Office over the Post Office, Sauk Centre
Minnesota,
A young ensign of the British army,
during the memorable siege of Luck-
now, was seated in one of the splendid
gardens adjoining a palace, in conversation witli his wife. The face of the
officer was pale, and the fact of his
arm being bandaged and supported by
a sling,.was evidence that he had been
wounded. He had been watching for
some time the gambols of a little child.
Then, as if speaking his owii thoughts^
he exclaimed:
" Rash, ••ery rash; it was madness !•"
His companion arose, and approaching him she laid her hand gently upon
hisshoukder and asked:
" Dear husband, what do you mean ?"
" This, my wife," replied the officer,
gazing.upon her with an expression
full of love—" that it was madness to
bring you away from our pleasant home
in England into this barbarous country."
• " No, she returned. " I should have
died of grief and anxiety if I had been
left behind—you would not now have
a wife."
" But our child ? "
" Would never have gladdened oui
hearts with its sweet face and innocent
prattle, for it i would have followedinift
to the cold grave. See how happy it ia
here!. Is she not—where- is she, husband?"
"A few moments since I saw her pass
beyond that cluster of vines, near the
lower end of the garden."
" I will bring her back, and she shall
cheer you," returned the wife, as sh6
ran in the direction where the little
one had last been seen.
A moment after the officer heard a
piercing shriek, and springing up he
ranto the place1 frorh, jvheiice it came.t
He found his wife in evident agony
She was searching among the shrub-
pfifyin every direction and calling hei
ibjiilii, but ho answer came, and she
sunk almost senseless upon the ground,
Tho'husband exiofoiuraged her with 8|
few words and then- continued tHJ
search ; but nowhere was the child tc
te found. Then he bent down and ex
amined footprints in the earth, anc
groaning within himself, he exclaimed •
"Great Heaven ! One of the Sepoy;
has beeii here and'Ku* treasure ha
been stolen from us! "
The mother heard these words, anl
then became entirely unconscious.
While the parentis fead been in coi-
Versation together, their little treasury
had wandered from their side. But
they did not "think for a'nionient tha
any danger could possibly befall it
They did not suppose that an enemy
was near.
But such was .really the fact:
A dusky form had been crouching
low among the vines growing upon the
lower garden wall, watching the officer
qifd his wife. His face evinced a malignant hatred, and he his'sed some
bitter wOrds between
clutched the hilt of
belt.
He then caught sight of the child.
Slipping from the wall into the garden, he crawled along' through the
shrubbery,- and seized the. infant; he
again ojamberedover the-»Wall and ran
towards the distant camp of the Sepoys,,
sayirrg"afs he did so r.t*fj"'1
"The accursed father would make
ns slaves. I tried to take -his life a.few
days since, but for the first time missed
my mark. I aimed for Ms*- heart, but
struck his arm. No matter—I can now
be revenged ; for they say that grief
kills these pale slogs as well as bullets."
The fiend did not notice that his actions had been observed. But there
,We?e eyes upon him. He was not seen;
^however1, iii feme tcVgiYe* the alarm,
but the one who h)d witnessed the
"act set forward in purstdt.
This was no other tBui the Scotch
lassie Jessie of Buckho\\ as she was
called;
Across the plajh she .i^ea^t a rapid
rate, gaining eacli moment \pon the
villainous Sepoy; Who did ndt appear
to exert hjmself n*w that he Vas fee-
yoftd the reach Of the English rifles'. t
At length he paused, and turding,
held, the child high ewer his head asaf
to mock- the agony of*he parents, vrh\
were looking after their loved one from
a distance.
A ravine was iiear 4,t hand. Into
this Jessie sprang, escaping tlrft-notic'e
of the villain. In a few moments.more
she again came in sight of the watchers and back of the wretch. She crept
cautiously and swiftly toward hirn, and
soon reached .his side. She held a dagger in her hand, which she lifted high
and the% sffiifc'k a terrible Mow. The
Sepoy dropped the infant, th^ewup
his hands, and fell forward oh his face
with a wild Xelk, ■•
Instantly Jessie 'seized the infant and
began her return.
From the Sepoy works these scehes
had been witnessed as well as from
those of the Enjdish. But not a shot
had been fired by the dusky fiends until they saw the villain fall, stricken
down by Jessie. :
She was Ti^thiiD, ^ange of their nlus-,
^ets", and a terrible volley was poured
after her. For a moment she staggered
as if about to fall. But glancing behind her shte saw that a. number of the
enemy had left' their works and Were
in hot pursuit.
This gave her fresh courage and
strength, and, she kept rapidly on her
course', while volley after volley. Was
fired after her, the bullets flying- about
her like hail. But she appeared to
bear a charmed life, and hearer and
nearer the city she came.
In a few minutes after she rushed
into, the British works, and cried :
"Where be the mother? Tell her
the child is safe."
She fell, exhausted arid covered with
blood, but' an examination proved the
fact that she had received no serious
injury.
It would have been difficult to describe which felt the greatest joy, the
father and mother of the child, or
Jessie, who had thus saved the little
one.
From that moment Jessie became a
hei-ojnfej 'ancTTremained the pride of the
army up to the day of Lueknow's relief
by Havelock, and ever after.
GARRET.
his teeth as he
a dagger in his
Sarcastic people are wont to say that
|ppets dwell in garrets; and simple people believe it. And others, neither sarcastic nor 'simple, send them aloft
among the rubbish, just because they'
do not know ■ what to do with them
down stairs and " among the people,"
and.so they class them under the head
of rubolsh, ahd consign them to that
receptacle of dilapidated "has been's"
and despised " used to be's "—the old
garret*"; • Alt!~y,
The garret is to the other apartment
of the homestead what the adverb is to
the pedagogue in parsing : everything
they do not know how to dispose of is
oonsignfid to the list of. adverbs. And
it is for this precise reason that . I love
garrets; because they do contain the
relics of the old and past—souvenirs of
other, ;and; happier and simpler times.
They, have come to build houses now-
a-'days without garrets. Impious innovation !
You man of bronze and "bearded
like thepard" who would make people
belive, if you. could, that you never
were a "tpddjin' wee,thing;" that you
never wore " a rifle dress," or Jingled a
rattle With infinite delight f that you
never had a mother, and that she never became a woman, and wore caps and
spectacles, and maybe took snuff—go
home once' niore and" .after all these
jsears of abseneeyall- booted and whiskered, and sig feefc hjgh as; you are, and
let us go up the stairs together into
that old-fashioned spacious garret, that
extends from gable to g&ble, with its
narrow windows, with the spiderweb of
a sash through which steals " a dim' religious light" upon a museum of things
unnamable, that once figured below
stairs, but wefe 'long since'Srowded out
by the Vandal hafWt or'" tjipse modern"
tithes. :'
.The loose boards of the floor rattle
somewhat as they used to—don't tbjejr
—when beneath your little pattering
feet? they clattered'aforetime, when of
a1 rainy day, "mother1,'*'' wearied With
many-tongued importunities,' granted'
,%e."let u"s go up garret and play."-
And play! Precious little play have
you had since, I'll warrant, w}tK yofflr
looks OTfidignttty and youT drearaings of
ambition:
Here we are now in the midst of the
garret. The old box shall we rummage
t ? Old files of newspapers, dusty," yel-'
bw, a little tattered—'Tis the Evening,
wrier. How familiar the type looks !
low it reminds you of old times, when-
ym. looked over the edges of the table
wth the letters or papers for father !
IDlve deeper ifito the box. There !
Afcundle—up it comes, in a cloud of
di^t. Old almanacs, by all that is.
memorable! Almanacs, thin-leaved
letoers of tit(i%.gaing back to-Jet„us
se^how far. 1847,183-, 182-, —before
oui time——180-,' when our mothers
wee children.
There you have hit your head against
tlrsbeam. Time was when Jyou ran to
anojfro beneath it, but yortJ-are, nearer
to i now, by more than the "altitude
of abopirie.-'' That beam is strewn with
forgotten papers of seeds for next
year's sowing; a distaff, with some few
shreds of flax remaining; is thrust into
a crevice of the rafters overhead; and
tucked away close under the roof is the
little wheel, that used to stand by the
fire irr times long gone. Its sweet, low
song has ceased;. and perhaps—she
drew, those flaxen threads—but never
mjnd; you remember the line—
"Her wheel at rest the matron charms no
more."
Well, let that pass. Do you see that
little craft 'careening in that dark corner ? It was the only casket in the
house orice, -and contained a mother's
jewels. The old cradle, for all the
wo-.ld-! _!Afld__you occupied it .once.; ayej
great as you are, it was your world
oace; and over it, the only horison you
beheld, bent the heaven of a mother's
eyes as you rocked in that little bark of
love, on the hitherto shoj-e of T^rine—
fast by a mother's loves to a mother's
heart
And there, attached to two rafter;Sj
are the fragments, oft untwisted rope.
Do you remembeAt, and what it was
ifoxj alid who fastened it there ? 'Twas
the ch'ildreris's swing. . You are here,
indeed", but where ate Nellie and Charlie I There harigs his little cap by that
window, and there the little frock she
used to wear. A crown is resting on
his brow, and her robes are spotless ia
a better land.—Ladies' Companion.
The Soul's Conviction of Immortality.
DOINO A DUN.
In the early days of the Bugle of Freedom, when I first ^became associated
With it', there was among its compositors one of the maddest Wags that ever
made night uproarious, with his wild
pranks'; He was a terror to boarding
housekeepers and restaurant proprietors; arid pushed his credit to a limit
that was only stayed by the dead wall
of refusal to trust. He is now a useful
ano\ .fesp.ec1$ble member of society, a
leading exhorter at political meetings,
and enjoys a prominent place among
the opponents of the license law. His
good nature remains, however, and he
loves his jokes as dearly as he ever did.
One day a tall and cadaverous looking gentleman came into the office, and
stepping up to our friend, asked if G-
wis in, giving htis own name.
Gr divined Ms., errand in ail instant; ahd looking up to where- the hats
Were, hung, replied:
"Yes; there's r his hat; he's round
here somewhere. Say," looking otev
his case, " is Gr over there ? "
"No," was the reply; " I saw him
over your way last."
' You had better wait, sir," said
6f ; he'll be in soon."
i The dun—for such he was—waited
until his patience gave out, and then
went off, G assuring him that the
one he sought was a tricky fellow, and
hid -undoubtedly dodged him; .,
Next day he came again, and.going
up to Gr- , with .whom he felt acquainted, he asked, in a whisper :
' "Is he in?"
" Yes; " was the reply; " there'&his
h'*:M,:
And then he looked around among
the men,' assuring the dun that he
couldn't see him, but. advised him to
wait, which he did, for an hour, and
then went away.
The next day When he canreiri he
wentdirectly to his new acquaintance
with the same question, receiving the
same answer.
" "Tie truth is;" said Gr -;..'/that he
knows you, and as you come in one
door he goes out. the other. Yoii had
better watch for him outeide>
And the patient man d^d watch in
the cold till the printers went to dinner, receiving a word of encouragement
from-GH— as he went out.
Each day till Saturday thus he eame,
and on each occasiori .was thus met
by the urbane and polite G—■—, who
went Saturday and paid the bill, and
the dun ceased coming, so mortified
w-Jth his want of shrewdness that he
left'dunning and weaj; into the undertaking business.
. Debt and Credit.—A rather fiinny
case came before a jusf^ce at Milwaijke
the other day. A young woman, who
had accepted the attei'tion and civilities of a gentleman for some time, and
at length .Was married , to. somebody
else, to whom she .had;: been privately
engaged at the time she accepted his
services. Thereupon the deceived i'n-
SrvKlual sued for a bill of $ 10485, the
amount he had paid in her behalf in*
taking her to concerts, operas, picnies,
rides, and ice-cream saloons. As an
offset he credited her with sundry
kisses valued at '$16.67£, several scfiieez-'
6s' of the hand $3.37J, an unreturned
photograph and ring, making a total of
$37.57. He recovered the bill, the
judge allowing the plaintiff the' kisses
at his' valuation. The case is to be
carried up, and there promises to be
much confUctirig .testimony "as to the
value- of Milwaukee girls' kisses.
A distinguished German professer
recently announced that if a drop of
human blood.wasplaced under a micra-:
scope capable of magnifying it twenty
millions times larger, it Would show. all
the kinds of animals that ever have existed, or now exist, on the earth. In
the r blood of a healty peason the animals are quiet; in that of a sickly per-
sflh t^ey fight. From this he draWs
the conclusion that man has within
him all the elements from which the
universe was created. He. further says
that if a dead cat was flung in a pool
of water and left to decompose, the
drops of water would show, when under a microscope, all the animals belonging to the cat species.
.1 never saw. a", man that did not believe in the immortality of love.when
following the body of a loved one to
the grave. I have seen men under
other circumstances that did not believe In it; but I never saw a man that,
when he stood looking, upon the form
of one that he really loved stretched
out for burial, did riot" revolt from say-
ing,-"it has all come to that; the hours
of sweet companionship; the wondrous
interfacings -of tropical souls; the joys;
the hopes ; the trusts ; the unutterable
yearnings—there they all lie." No
man can stand and look in a coffin "upon the body of a /fellow creature, and
fcenieDjbei' the .flaming intelligence, the,
blossoming love; the Whole range of
divine faculties, which so lately animated that cold clay, and say, "These
have all collapsed and gone." No person can witness the last ceremonials
which are performed over the remains
of a human being—the sealing down
of.unopened lid; the- following of the
rumbling procession to the place of
burial; the letting down of dust into
dust; the falling of the earth upon the
hollow coffin with those souuds that
are worse than thunder, and the placing
of the green sod over the grave—no
person, unless he be a beast, can wit*
ness these things, and then turn away
and say: "I have buried my wife; I
have buried my child) I .have buried
my sister, my brother, my love.
God forbid that we should bury anything. There is no * earth that. can
touch my child. I would fight my little breath and strength away before I
would pei'mit any' clod to touch him.
The jewel is hot in the ground; the
jewel has dropped out of the casket,
and I have buried the casket—not the
jewel. And you may reason; you may
'say what you please 5 you .may, carry
the case before the supreme court of;
my understanding, but there is something higher than reason, and something back pf the uriderstaridirig'. All
that is in me revolts at the decision;
and spurns it, and says, you must try
heart cases before the heart. We will
not believe but that there is life somewhere else; We will not believe that
life is buried here—and the soul goes
out and cries, like a child lost in the
woods, to find itself in this strange
world, saying, " Where am 11 and who
shall guide me, that long; .and yearn,
and reach upward."—Beecher's Royal
Truths.
A FATAL "WATCH.
"PLAYING DOCTOR.
Henry was the son of a physician,
and often amused himself by playing
doctor, compounding his powders and
pills out of the sand and gravel of. the
garden. One day while thus engaged,
a large toad hopped near him, and
seating itself leisurely upon its haunches, proceeded to open arid shut its
mouth as if inviting the doctor's attention. It was catching flies.
. " Good morning, Mr. Toad," i said
Harry, delighted at the.idea of haying
a live patient. " Come to be doctored 1
Got the dropsy, p'raps."
Mr: Toad winked and gulped; as
riiuch as to say, " Yes,'sir, very bad."
" Yes, yes, I understand your case
'zactly. You jes please to wait a minute, and PI] cure you double- quick:"-" ,
Now it happened that Harry had
seen his father prepare some compound
rhubarb pills that morning, and it occurred to him here was a favorable opportunity to test thier efficacy. In less
time than it takes- to write it, the aspiring young doctor secured, one of the
pills and dropped it into the open
mouth of the confiding patient.
" Guess I've fixed you" now," solilo-
quized the doctor. " When .1 cures, I
cures, .and when I don't cures,"T kills."
Mr. Toad gulped and swallowed and
begun to bloat, and bloat, until Harry
thought he must be- the very frog alluded to in his reader, that tried to
outdo the ox.; A moment more and
the poor patient turned a livid purple;
gave one last gasp and expired. His
Bv-eatching days were ended. HM
doctor had killed him.
Harry buried his patient with a grave
face, and sat down to meditate upon
the virtue of compound rhubarb pills.
Whatever was his condition afterward','
he could with difficulty be persuaded
to take his father's medicines, always
objecting upon the plea, " They killed
^he, toad f"
On one occasion as the Rev. Matthew
Wilks, a celebrated London preacher,
was on his way to a meeting of ministers, he got caught in a shower in the
place called... Billingsgate, where there
was a large number of women dealing
in fish, who were using profane and
vulgar language.
As Jue stopped under the shed in the
midst of them, • he felt called upon to
give at least his testimony against their
wickedness. •
" Don't you think," said he,, speaking with the greatest deliberatioca^and
solemnity, " I shall appear as a swift
witness against you -in the day judgment? "
" I presume so," said one, for the
biggest rogues always turn State's evidence.
Matthew, when he got to the meeting, related the incident.
" And whsit^did you say in reply, Mr.
Wilks ? " said one of the ministers present:
"What could I! " was the characteristic reply.
A waterspout in Cera, Brazil, caused
the bursting, opening and fall of the
top ■ of a high mountain, burying two
houses and every person in them.
From the Lansing (Mich.) Democrat.
.' We. do not believe in dreairis and superstitions, as a general thing, • hut
once in a while one is compelled to believe even against his own will. There
lately died of malignant fever in Saginaw; a young man aged about twefity.-
two years, whose, parents have for a
long time resided in this city. They
are aged people, given to odd whims
'and notions, and it will no doubt be
|just as well to suppress their names.
Together with a trunk, books', papers,
clothing and money which arrived here
from Saginaw last Saturday night, came
an old fashioned English watch, commonly known as a " bull's eye," and" ij
is oTthis that we have a stranger f#letfp
relate. The time-piece was taken of a,
widow woman in exchange for a coin
in 1857, while all the parties were liv-"
ing in Sylvania, Ohio. William, the
eldest son of four,:boys, '.shortly after
went to New Orleans, carrying the
watch With him, and was stabbed in a
saloon on the next week after his arrival. A telegram Was sent to-Sylvania',
and the father went down and.brought
back the. body; The next son Henry^ .
in 1859, was killed by the falling,of a
yard on the schooner Atlanta, while at
Sandusky, and the Coroner there forwarded the effects'.of the deceased to
his parents—among. them, being the
watch. The third son, James; enlisted
in the first company that left here^ and
tented with 'the writer of .this for the
first three months after reaching Vir- !
ginia. ' He had the watch until his
death, which occurred at Fair Oaks, in
June, 1862, and the watch- Was forwarded to his parents here by Capt. Je'flersj
of Co. G. The fourth son, Albert, went
to Saginaw last winter, carrying
the watch against the advice of his parents, and his death and the return of
the watch are recorded at the be'ginr
ning of the article. Whether a fatality
will ever attend all who carry the an-
cient timepiece is beyond the reach.of
human ken; but the most skeptical
can but admit that the death of four
brothers in succession, so far apart and
so widely different, and carrying the
watch at the time of'his death, is a singular fact to say the least. .
A SECOND EVAJiftEIilSE.
On board a steamer .which ; recently
passed up to Montana was a young girl
scarcely eighteen^ Who goes to the distant land of gold to meet her affianced.
Four years ago she 'me* and loved a
young student in a German university;
Their trysting place might not have
been at "Bangin on the Rhine," but
'twas just as romantic a spot not many
leagues distant'. Her attachment, was
reciprocated, and troth was plighted.
Three years since, the "bridegroom"
came to America, and sought his for-'
tune amid the placers of Montana j
shortly securing. a..lucrative position,
as superintendent of a successful minting company. A few weeks ago a.brief
message darted across two continents,
and three thousand miles of ocean in a
day; and found this beautiful uiisbphisti:
cated girl, surrounded by all the endearments of a home of wealth and'refinement. It told her that near .the.
far off shore of the Pacific soraeone
waited her-coming.. A few days later
she disembarked in a strange land; the
language and cusfonis of -whose people
were hew to her. She is now slowly
arid .happily ascending" the Missouri,
confident that her "bridegroom"'is expecting her, having traveled alone from
the banks of the Baitie to meet. Kim.'
Suppose he should have- died during
her journey ! What then?—St. Joseph
Union.
A Methodist preacher of a large muscular frame, and a large hand, with a
powerful grip, some years ago was holding a protracted meeting, in which
quite an interest was awakened. A
number of persons had 'come to the'
anxious seat, and a few had been con-,
verted." A group, consisting of two or.
three young men and as many young"
ladies, were present whose object in
[coining was to have merriment, i Tire,
minister kindly, requested them to observe the decorum befitting the place.
One of them ventured, in a rather ungracious manner, to reply that they
had " understood. that miracles were-
worked there,", and had come to see
some performed. Upon this our robust frierid coolly took the young man
by the coat collar, deliberately led- him
down the aisle, and opening the doop
without ceremony, landed him outside,"
quietly remarking, " We do not work"
miracles here', but we cast out devils."
Facts Concerning Human Iiife",
The total number oi" human . beings on
earth is computed at 3,000,000,000,' and' they
speak 3,083 known tori'gus." '''■•<<
The average duration of life is 33J^ years.. ,
One fourth of those born die before they are
seven years old, and one-half before they are
at the age of 60.
Sixty persons die every minute. • §&=•>
Tall men live longer than short ones. % '. -. I
Married men are longer lived than the
single.' t . I
Rich men live, oh the average, i2 years, on*
the poor only 20^"B - - A«_,
There is a drunkard to every 7i.
The other evening, a gentleman's button
caught hold of the Jfringe of a lady's shawl.
. '•' t-sxa. attached to to," said the gentleman,
laughing."
; "The,attachment is mutual," wasthc good
humored reply.
A man and his wile in North Brookflokl,
Mass., have been caught in cutting the hair
from their neighbors' cows' tails, for hair to
sell to the tin peddiarst The good people of
that town think it rather meaii, especially as
iiy time is at hand.
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A young ensign of the British army,
during the memorable siege of Luck-
now, was seated in one of the splendid
gardens adjoining a palace, in conversation witli his wife. The face of the
officer was pale, and the fact of his
arm being bandaged and supported by
a sling,.was evidence that he had been
wounded. He had been watching for
some time the gambols of a little child.
Then, as if speaking his owii thoughts^
he exclaimed:
" Rash, ••ery rash; it was madness !•"
His companion arose, and approaching him she laid her hand gently upon
hisshoukder and asked:
" Dear husband, what do you mean ?"
" This, my wife," replied the officer,
gazing.upon her with an expression
full of love—" that it was madness to
bring you away from our pleasant home
in England into this barbarous country."
• " No, she returned. " I should have
died of grief and anxiety if I had been
left behind—you would not now have
a wife."
" But our child ? "
" Would never have gladdened oui
hearts with its sweet face and innocent
prattle, for it i would have followedinift
to the cold grave. See how happy it ia
here!. Is she not—where- is she, husband?"
"A few moments since I saw her pass
beyond that cluster of vines, near the
lower end of the garden."
" I will bring her back, and she shall
cheer you," returned the wife, as sh6
ran in the direction where the little
one had last been seen.
A moment after the officer heard a
piercing shriek, and springing up he
ranto the place1 frorh, jvheiice it came.t
He found his wife in evident agony
She was searching among the shrub-
pfifyin every direction and calling hei
ibjiilii, but ho answer came, and she
sunk almost senseless upon the ground,
Tho'husband exiofoiuraged her with 8|
few words and then- continued tHJ
search ; but nowhere was the child tc
te found. Then he bent down and ex
amined footprints in the earth, anc
groaning within himself, he exclaimed •
"Great Heaven ! One of the Sepoy;
has beeii here and'Ku* treasure ha
been stolen from us! "
The mother heard these words, anl
then became entirely unconscious.
While the parentis fead been in coi-
Versation together, their little treasury
had wandered from their side. But
they did not "think for a'nionient tha
any danger could possibly befall it
They did not suppose that an enemy
was near.
But such was .really the fact:
A dusky form had been crouching
low among the vines growing upon the
lower garden wall, watching the officer
qifd his wife. His face evinced a malignant hatred, and he his'sed some
bitter wOrds between
clutched the hilt of
belt.
He then caught sight of the child.
Slipping from the wall into the garden, he crawled along' through the
shrubbery,- and seized the. infant; he
again ojamberedover the-»Wall and ran
towards the distant camp of the Sepoys,,
sayirrg"afs he did so r.t*fj"'1
"The accursed father would make
ns slaves. I tried to take -his life a.few
days since, but for the first time missed
my mark. I aimed for Ms*- heart, but
struck his arm. No matter—I can now
be revenged ; for they say that grief
kills these pale slogs as well as bullets."
The fiend did not notice that his actions had been observed. But there
,We?e eyes upon him. He was not seen;
^however1, iii feme tcVgiYe* the alarm,
but the one who h)d witnessed the
"act set forward in purstdt.
This was no other tBui the Scotch
lassie Jessie of Buckho\\ as she was
called;
Across the plajh she .i^ea^t a rapid
rate, gaining eacli moment \pon the
villainous Sepoy; Who did ndt appear
to exert hjmself n*w that he Vas fee-
yoftd the reach Of the English rifles'. t
At length he paused, and turding,
held, the child high ewer his head asaf
to mock- the agony of*he parents, vrh\
were looking after their loved one from
a distance.
A ravine was iiear 4,t hand. Into
this Jessie sprang, escaping tlrft-notic'e
of the villain. In a few moments.more
she again came in sight of the watchers and back of the wretch. She crept
cautiously and swiftly toward hirn, and
soon reached .his side. She held a dagger in her hand, which she lifted high
and the% sffiifc'k a terrible Mow. The
Sepoy dropped the infant, th^ewup
his hands, and fell forward oh his face
with a wild Xelk, ■•
Instantly Jessie 'seized the infant and
began her return.
From the Sepoy works these scehes
had been witnessed as well as from
those of the Enjdish. But not a shot
had been fired by the dusky fiends until they saw the villain fall, stricken
down by Jessie. :
She was Ti^thiiD, ^ange of their nlus-,
^ets", and a terrible volley was poured
after her. For a moment she staggered
as if about to fall. But glancing behind her shte saw that a. number of the
enemy had left' their works and Were
in hot pursuit.
This gave her fresh courage and
strength, and, she kept rapidly on her
course', while volley after volley. Was
fired after her, the bullets flying- about
her like hail. But she appeared to
bear a charmed life, and hearer and
nearer the city she came.
In a few minutes after she rushed
into, the British works, and cried :
"Where be the mother? Tell her
the child is safe."
She fell, exhausted arid covered with
blood, but' an examination proved the
fact that she had received no serious
injury.
It would have been difficult to describe which felt the greatest joy, the
father and mother of the child, or
Jessie, who had thus saved the little
one.
From that moment Jessie became a
hei-ojnfej 'ancTTremained the pride of the
army up to the day of Lueknow's relief
by Havelock, and ever after.
GARRET.
his teeth as he
a dagger in his
Sarcastic people are wont to say that
|ppets dwell in garrets; and simple people believe it. And others, neither sarcastic nor 'simple, send them aloft
among the rubbish, just because they'
do not know ■ what to do with them
down stairs and " among the people,"
and.so they class them under the head
of rubolsh, ahd consign them to that
receptacle of dilapidated "has been's"
and despised " used to be's "—the old
garret*"; • Alt!~y,
The garret is to the other apartment
of the homestead what the adverb is to
the pedagogue in parsing : everything
they do not know how to dispose of is
oonsignfid to the list of. adverbs. And
it is for this precise reason that . I love
garrets; because they do contain the
relics of the old and past—souvenirs of
other, ;and; happier and simpler times.
They, have come to build houses now-
a-'days without garrets. Impious innovation !
You man of bronze and "bearded
like thepard" who would make people
belive, if you. could, that you never
were a "tpddjin' wee,thing;" that you
never wore " a rifle dress," or Jingled a
rattle With infinite delight f that you
never had a mother, and that she never became a woman, and wore caps and
spectacles, and maybe took snuff—go
home once' niore and" .after all these
jsears of abseneeyall- booted and whiskered, and sig feefc hjgh as; you are, and
let us go up the stairs together into
that old-fashioned spacious garret, that
extends from gable to g&ble, with its
narrow windows, with the spiderweb of
a sash through which steals " a dim' religious light" upon a museum of things
unnamable, that once figured below
stairs, but wefe 'long since'Srowded out
by the Vandal hafWt or'" tjipse modern"
tithes. :'
.The loose boards of the floor rattle
somewhat as they used to—don't tbjejr
—when beneath your little pattering
feet? they clattered'aforetime, when of
a1 rainy day, "mother1,'*'' wearied With
many-tongued importunities,' granted'
,%e."let u"s go up garret and play."-
And play! Precious little play have
you had since, I'll warrant, w}tK yofflr
looks OTfidignttty and youT drearaings of
ambition:
Here we are now in the midst of the
garret. The old box shall we rummage
t ? Old files of newspapers, dusty," yel-'
bw, a little tattered—'Tis the Evening,
wrier. How familiar the type looks !
low it reminds you of old times, when-
ym. looked over the edges of the table
wth the letters or papers for father !
IDlve deeper ifito the box. There !
Afcundle—up it comes, in a cloud of
di^t. Old almanacs, by all that is.
memorable! Almanacs, thin-leaved
letoers of tit(i%.gaing back to-Jet„us
se^how far. 1847,183-, 182-, —before
oui time——180-,' when our mothers
wee children.
There you have hit your head against
tlrsbeam. Time was when Jyou ran to
anojfro beneath it, but yortJ-are, nearer
to i now, by more than the "altitude
of abopirie.-'' That beam is strewn with
forgotten papers of seeds for next
year's sowing; a distaff, with some few
shreds of flax remaining; is thrust into
a crevice of the rafters overhead; and
tucked away close under the roof is the
little wheel, that used to stand by the
fire irr times long gone. Its sweet, low
song has ceased;. and perhaps—she
drew, those flaxen threads—but never
mjnd; you remember the line—
"Her wheel at rest the matron charms no
more."
Well, let that pass. Do you see that
little craft 'careening in that dark corner ? It was the only casket in the
house orice, -and contained a mother's
jewels. The old cradle, for all the
wo-.ld-! _!Afld__you occupied it .once.; ayej
great as you are, it was your world
oace; and over it, the only horison you
beheld, bent the heaven of a mother's
eyes as you rocked in that little bark of
love, on the hitherto shoj-e of T^rine—
fast by a mother's loves to a mother's
heart
And there, attached to two rafter;Sj
are the fragments, oft untwisted rope.
Do you remembeAt, and what it was
ifoxj alid who fastened it there ? 'Twas
the ch'ildreris's swing. . You are here,
indeed", but where ate Nellie and Charlie I There harigs his little cap by that
window, and there the little frock she
used to wear. A crown is resting on
his brow, and her robes are spotless ia
a better land.—Ladies' Companion.
The Soul's Conviction of Immortality.
DOINO A DUN.
In the early days of the Bugle of Freedom, when I first ^became associated
With it', there was among its compositors one of the maddest Wags that ever
made night uproarious, with his wild
pranks'; He was a terror to boarding
housekeepers and restaurant proprietors; arid pushed his credit to a limit
that was only stayed by the dead wall
of refusal to trust. He is now a useful
ano\ .fesp.ec1$ble member of society, a
leading exhorter at political meetings,
and enjoys a prominent place among
the opponents of the license law. His
good nature remains, however, and he
loves his jokes as dearly as he ever did.
One day a tall and cadaverous looking gentleman came into the office, and
stepping up to our friend, asked if G-
wis in, giving htis own name.
Gr divined Ms., errand in ail instant; ahd looking up to where- the hats
Were, hung, replied:
"Yes; there's r his hat; he's round
here somewhere. Say," looking otev
his case, " is Gr over there ? "
"No," was the reply; " I saw him
over your way last."
' You had better wait, sir," said
6f ; he'll be in soon."
i The dun—for such he was—waited
until his patience gave out, and then
went off, G assuring him that the
one he sought was a tricky fellow, and
hid -undoubtedly dodged him; .,
Next day he came again, and.going
up to Gr- , with .whom he felt acquainted, he asked, in a whisper :
' "Is he in?"
" Yes; " was the reply; " there'&his
h'*:M,:
And then he looked around among
the men,' assuring the dun that he
couldn't see him, but. advised him to
wait, which he did, for an hour, and
then went away.
The next day When he canreiri he
wentdirectly to his new acquaintance
with the same question, receiving the
same answer.
" "Tie truth is;" said Gr -;..'/that he
knows you, and as you come in one
door he goes out. the other. Yoii had
better watch for him outeide>
And the patient man d^d watch in
the cold till the printers went to dinner, receiving a word of encouragement
from-GH— as he went out.
Each day till Saturday thus he eame,
and on each occasiori .was thus met
by the urbane and polite G—■—, who
went Saturday and paid the bill, and
the dun ceased coming, so mortified
w-Jth his want of shrewdness that he
left'dunning and weaj; into the undertaking business.
. Debt and Credit.—A rather fiinny
case came before a jusf^ce at Milwaijke
the other day. A young woman, who
had accepted the attei'tion and civilities of a gentleman for some time, and
at length .Was married , to. somebody
else, to whom she .had;: been privately
engaged at the time she accepted his
services. Thereupon the deceived i'n-
SrvKlual sued for a bill of $ 10485, the
amount he had paid in her behalf in*
taking her to concerts, operas, picnies,
rides, and ice-cream saloons. As an
offset he credited her with sundry
kisses valued at '$16.67£, several scfiieez-'
6s' of the hand $3.37J, an unreturned
photograph and ring, making a total of
$37.57. He recovered the bill, the
judge allowing the plaintiff the' kisses
at his' valuation. The case is to be
carried up, and there promises to be
much confUctirig .testimony "as to the
value- of Milwaukee girls' kisses.
A distinguished German professer
recently announced that if a drop of
human blood.wasplaced under a micra-:
scope capable of magnifying it twenty
millions times larger, it Would show. all
the kinds of animals that ever have existed, or now exist, on the earth. In
the r blood of a healty peason the animals are quiet; in that of a sickly per-
sflh t^ey fight. From this he draWs
the conclusion that man has within
him all the elements from which the
universe was created. He. further says
that if a dead cat was flung in a pool
of water and left to decompose, the
drops of water would show, when under a microscope, all the animals belonging to the cat species.
.1 never saw. a", man that did not believe in the immortality of love.when
following the body of a loved one to
the grave. I have seen men under
other circumstances that did not believe In it; but I never saw a man that,
when he stood looking, upon the form
of one that he really loved stretched
out for burial, did riot" revolt from say-
ing,-"it has all come to that; the hours
of sweet companionship; the wondrous
interfacings -of tropical souls; the joys;
the hopes ; the trusts ; the unutterable
yearnings—there they all lie." No
man can stand and look in a coffin "upon the body of a /fellow creature, and
fcenieDjbei' the .flaming intelligence, the,
blossoming love; the Whole range of
divine faculties, which so lately animated that cold clay, and say, "These
have all collapsed and gone." No person can witness the last ceremonials
which are performed over the remains
of a human being—the sealing down
of.unopened lid; the- following of the
rumbling procession to the place of
burial; the letting down of dust into
dust; the falling of the earth upon the
hollow coffin with those souuds that
are worse than thunder, and the placing
of the green sod over the grave—no
person, unless he be a beast, can wit*
ness these things, and then turn away
and say: "I have buried my wife; I
have buried my child) I .have buried
my sister, my brother, my love.
God forbid that we should bury anything. There is no * earth that. can
touch my child. I would fight my little breath and strength away before I
would pei'mit any' clod to touch him.
The jewel is hot in the ground; the
jewel has dropped out of the casket,
and I have buried the casket—not the
jewel. And you may reason; you may
'say what you please 5 you .may, carry
the case before the supreme court of;
my understanding, but there is something higher than reason, and something back pf the uriderstaridirig'. All
that is in me revolts at the decision;
and spurns it, and says, you must try
heart cases before the heart. We will
not believe but that there is life somewhere else; We will not believe that
life is buried here—and the soul goes
out and cries, like a child lost in the
woods, to find itself in this strange
world, saying, " Where am 11 and who
shall guide me, that long; .and yearn,
and reach upward."—Beecher's Royal
Truths.
A FATAL "WATCH.
"PLAYING DOCTOR.
Henry was the son of a physician,
and often amused himself by playing
doctor, compounding his powders and
pills out of the sand and gravel of. the
garden. One day while thus engaged,
a large toad hopped near him, and
seating itself leisurely upon its haunches, proceeded to open arid shut its
mouth as if inviting the doctor's attention. It was catching flies.
. " Good morning, Mr. Toad," i said
Harry, delighted at the.idea of haying
a live patient. " Come to be doctored 1
Got the dropsy, p'raps."
Mr: Toad winked and gulped; as
riiuch as to say, " Yes,'sir, very bad."
" Yes, yes, I understand your case
'zactly. You jes please to wait a minute, and PI] cure you double- quick:"-" ,
Now it happened that Harry had
seen his father prepare some compound
rhubarb pills that morning, and it occurred to him here was a favorable opportunity to test thier efficacy. In less
time than it takes- to write it, the aspiring young doctor secured, one of the
pills and dropped it into the open
mouth of the confiding patient.
" Guess I've fixed you" now," solilo-
quized the doctor. " When .1 cures, I
cures, .and when I don't cures,"T kills."
Mr. Toad gulped and swallowed and
begun to bloat, and bloat, until Harry
thought he must be- the very frog alluded to in his reader, that tried to
outdo the ox.; A moment more and
the poor patient turned a livid purple;
gave one last gasp and expired. His
Bv-eatching days were ended. HM
doctor had killed him.
Harry buried his patient with a grave
face, and sat down to meditate upon
the virtue of compound rhubarb pills.
Whatever was his condition afterward','
he could with difficulty be persuaded
to take his father's medicines, always
objecting upon the plea, " They killed
^he, toad f"
On one occasion as the Rev. Matthew
Wilks, a celebrated London preacher,
was on his way to a meeting of ministers, he got caught in a shower in the
place called... Billingsgate, where there
was a large number of women dealing
in fish, who were using profane and
vulgar language.
As Jue stopped under the shed in the
midst of them, • he felt called upon to
give at least his testimony against their
wickedness. •
" Don't you think," said he,, speaking with the greatest deliberatioca^and
solemnity, " I shall appear as a swift
witness against you -in the day judgment? "
" I presume so," said one, for the
biggest rogues always turn State's evidence.
Matthew, when he got to the meeting, related the incident.
" And whsit^did you say in reply, Mr.
Wilks ? " said one of the ministers present:
"What could I! " was the characteristic reply.
A waterspout in Cera, Brazil, caused
the bursting, opening and fall of the
top ■ of a high mountain, burying two
houses and every person in them.
From the Lansing (Mich.) Democrat.
.' We. do not believe in dreairis and superstitions, as a general thing, • hut
once in a while one is compelled to believe even against his own will. There
lately died of malignant fever in Saginaw; a young man aged about twefity.-
two years, whose, parents have for a
long time resided in this city. They
are aged people, given to odd whims
'and notions, and it will no doubt be
|just as well to suppress their names.
Together with a trunk, books', papers,
clothing and money which arrived here
from Saginaw last Saturday night, came
an old fashioned English watch, commonly known as a " bull's eye," and" ij
is oTthis that we have a stranger f#letfp
relate. The time-piece was taken of a,
widow woman in exchange for a coin
in 1857, while all the parties were liv-"
ing in Sylvania, Ohio. William, the
eldest son of four,:boys, '.shortly after
went to New Orleans, carrying the
watch With him, and was stabbed in a
saloon on the next week after his arrival. A telegram Was sent to-Sylvania',
and the father went down and.brought
back the. body; The next son Henry^ .
in 1859, was killed by the falling,of a
yard on the schooner Atlanta, while at
Sandusky, and the Coroner there forwarded the effects'.of the deceased to
his parents—among. them, being the
watch. The third son, James; enlisted
in the first company that left here^ and
tented with 'the writer of .this for the
first three months after reaching Vir- !
ginia. ' He had the watch until his
death, which occurred at Fair Oaks, in
June, 1862, and the watch- Was forwarded to his parents here by Capt. Je'flersj
of Co. G. The fourth son, Albert, went
to Saginaw last winter, carrying
the watch against the advice of his parents, and his death and the return of
the watch are recorded at the be'ginr
ning of the article. Whether a fatality
will ever attend all who carry the an-
cient timepiece is beyond the reach.of
human ken; but the most skeptical
can but admit that the death of four
brothers in succession, so far apart and
so widely different, and carrying the
watch at the time of'his death, is a singular fact to say the least. .
A SECOND EVAJiftEIilSE.
On board a steamer .which ; recently
passed up to Montana was a young girl
scarcely eighteen^ Who goes to the distant land of gold to meet her affianced.
Four years ago she 'me* and loved a
young student in a German university;
Their trysting place might not have
been at "Bangin on the Rhine," but
'twas just as romantic a spot not many
leagues distant'. Her attachment, was
reciprocated, and troth was plighted.
Three years since, the "bridegroom"
came to America, and sought his for-'
tune amid the placers of Montana j
shortly securing. a..lucrative position,
as superintendent of a successful minting company. A few weeks ago a.brief
message darted across two continents,
and three thousand miles of ocean in a
day; and found this beautiful uiisbphisti:
cated girl, surrounded by all the endearments of a home of wealth and'refinement. It told her that near .the.
far off shore of the Pacific soraeone
waited her-coming.. A few days later
she disembarked in a strange land; the
language and cusfonis of -whose people
were hew to her. She is now slowly
arid .happily ascending" the Missouri,
confident that her "bridegroom"'is expecting her, having traveled alone from
the banks of the Baitie to meet. Kim.'
Suppose he should have- died during
her journey ! What then?—St. Joseph
Union.
A Methodist preacher of a large muscular frame, and a large hand, with a
powerful grip, some years ago was holding a protracted meeting, in which
quite an interest was awakened. A
number of persons had 'come to the'
anxious seat, and a few had been con-,
verted." A group, consisting of two or.
three young men and as many young"
ladies, were present whose object in
[coining was to have merriment, i Tire,
minister kindly, requested them to observe the decorum befitting the place.
One of them ventured, in a rather ungracious manner, to reply that they
had " understood. that miracles were-
worked there,", and had come to see
some performed. Upon this our robust frierid coolly took the young man
by the coat collar, deliberately led- him
down the aisle, and opening the doop
without ceremony, landed him outside,"
quietly remarking, " We do not work"
miracles here', but we cast out devils."
Facts Concerning Human Iiife",
The total number oi" human . beings on
earth is computed at 3,000,000,000,' and' they
speak 3,083 known tori'gus." '''■•<<
The average duration of life is 33J^ years.. ,
One fourth of those born die before they are
seven years old, and one-half before they are
at the age of 60.
Sixty persons die every minute. • §&=•>
Tall men live longer than short ones. % '. -. I
Married men are longer lived than the
single.' t . I
Rich men live, oh the average, i2 years, on*
the poor only 20^"B - - A«_,
There is a drunkard to every 7i.
The other evening, a gentleman's button
caught hold of the Jfringe of a lady's shawl.
. '•' t-sxa. attached to to," said the gentleman,
laughing."
; "The,attachment is mutual," wasthc good
humored reply.
A man and his wile in North Brookflokl,
Mass., have been caught in cutting the hair
from their neighbors' cows' tails, for hair to
sell to the tin peddiarst The good people of
that town think it rather meaii, especially as
iiy time is at hand.
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